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Tales in Tongues

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English major, 22, Nordics. This blog is about languages, studying, writing, literature and some culture stuff. Don't hesitate to contact me!
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Date an AIESECer.

Date an AIESECer. Date someone who believes that if their dreams don’t scare them, then they’re not big enough. Date a change maker, a person who believes he was born for a reason. They may not be the perfect flawless people you’ll meet in your life, but you’ll be impressed by how much they’re endlessly working on themselves. Find an AIESECer. You’ll spot them dancing their own moves (roll calls) on certain songs. They spend too much time on Gmail and Google Drive. Once you get to know an AIESECer, spontaneously you’ll get to know many others. As AIESECers deal with each other as family, they don’t only work together, go visits or work on projects together. But they get so connected that they literally spend their whole time together. They feel free to call their AIESEC friends to hang out together even if they talked to them once. Yes, socializing is that easy when you’re dealing with AIESECers. Don’t panic when they ask you for personal feedback after anything. It’s not a joke. They will actually consider whatever you’ll tell them. As they are in their journey of self discovery and development. Don’t get bored when they keep telling you about their AIESEC dreams, get very excited when they step into a new role in their AIESEC experience, you may think they’re stupid but you’ll get all these syndromes when you join, too. And you’ll hear the most famous line ever “Didn’t I tell you how awesome it is?”. Trust me, AIESECers don’t live in their own bubble. You may find them the most interesting people to talk with about politics, philosophy, art and life. AIESECers are travelers and leaders, you’ll get fascinated by how much experience, knowledge and wisdom they have.  Date an AIESECer and the huge amount of motivation you’ll get would be simply unbelievable. An AIESECer would understand that you’re a human being and you need to get motivated every now and then. You’ll find them supporting you like ever, with all the words and actions they can provide you with. Date an AIESECer so when you’re about to take a new step into your career, you’ll find them your guardian angel. They will interview you before your professional interview, making sure you can pass it and focusing on all your weaknesses that you have to change and work on.  A relationship with an AIESECer would be totally different than any other relation. You’d both sit together and make a goal setting with a certain target and a deadline, you’ll find yourself working on the development of both of you. Whenever you find them not working on their weaknesses, you’ll keep them updated. So at the end of the time period you both agreed on, you’ll find yourself got developed in something, learnt a new skill and had an impact on someone else. AIESECers will bring out the best of you. Give them challenges. Put them in a competition mood and don’t set rules for the game, you’ll find extremely creative ways they discovered. Travel with them, to somewhere you haven’t traveled before. Get lost with them and don’t fear anything, you’ll enjoy the journey. Exploring with an AIESECer would be the most enjoyable thing you’ll ever do in your life. It’s okay to make mistakes. An AIESECer would understand, and would give you the space you need to make mistakes, learn from them and move on. An AIESECer won’t expect a perfect partner. An AIESECer won’t need a perfect partner. An AIESECer need a person with flaws and potentials, who’d agree to go on a self development journey, no more no less.  It’s okay to be different, too. AIESECers understand and accept diversity. They know how to get benefited from, they love being with diverse people, not just a copy paste from them. They’ll always show flexibility towards any different opinions or actions. They are open minded and you can be yourself with them, without acting or beautifying. 

You won’t need to overact to make an AIESECer notice you’re sad or depressed. They are extremely emotionally intelligent. They will notice and care about you. They would put themselves in your shoes. They will always listen carefully and give you their full attention.  Date an AIESECer and they’ll take you to new places, influential and inspiring movies and talks, recommend you creative books. As AIESECers are always looking for sources of inspiration. With AIESECers you’ll always feel fresh and alive. Date an AIESECer and you’d be more than proud to introduce them to anyone, your family or your friends. AIESECers are always interesting people to talk with, with so much impressive stories and experiences. They’re passionate, creative and entrepreneurs. They will face whatever challenges they have in their lives.  Date an AIESECer and they will make you something from nothing. They know how to be resourceful and they understand how to enjoy the little things they have. Date an AIESECer and listen to them talking about their society from the positive perspective, as if it’s not a hopeless case. They will always find hope, a light and they will work on it to make it a better place to live in.  Date an AIESECer so they will believe in you, make you believe in yourself and in your potentials. They will show you that you’re a lot more wonderful, special and beautiful than you ever give yourself credit for.  Date an AIESECer so you’ll always be young, wild and free. 

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LEARN SPANISH WATCHING TV SERIES (FROM SPAIN)

As you all may know, watching TV in your target language helps improving the vocabulary, listening comprehension, and knowledge of it in general. This is why I decided to create a masterpost with some of the most well-known TV series in Spain. The titles are clickable, and they redirect to a trailer or some short clip of the show. 

(Not following any particular order)

  • Las chicas del cable: Netflix’s first Spanish original series. It’s set in 1928, and it tells the story of a group of girls working for a telecommunications company. It has this Great Gastby feeling, highly recommended! 
  • Física o química: I’d say this is a low-budget, Spanish version of Skam or Skins, but a bit outdated since it’s from some years ago. But basically same story, the struggles of some high school kids.
  • Cuéntame cómo pasó: it narrates the daily life of a Spanish family of the second half of the twentieth century, so of course it has some historic episodes going on. It started back in 2001, based in 1968, and it’s still on air, narrating the year 1986.
  • Aquí no hay quién viva: sitcom which depicts the problems of the neighbours of an apartment building. It stopped being broadcast in 2006, but a new series with basically the same argument and actors emerged, called La que se avecina.
  • Los hombres de Paco: drama comedy which tells the story of some policemen.
  • Farmacia de guardia: apparently this is the most watched Spanish TV series ever. It’s a sitcom about a pharmaceutic and her life.
  • Los Serrano: drama comedy about a family and their struggles.
  • Vis a vis: a Spanish remake of Orange is the new black, basically.
  • El ministerio del tiempo: fantasy TV series about a ministry that travels in time.
  • Velvet: story of love between a heir and a seamstress in the 50s. Miguel Ángel Silvestre (who also appears on Sense8) plays the lead role here.
  • Sin tetas no hay paraíso: a love story between a posh girl and a troubled guy. Miguel Ángel Silvestre also plays a role here.
  • El príncipe: drama series of a relationship between a Christian policeman and a Muslim woman.
  • Aída: sitcom about a poor-ish, low class family and their neighbours.
  • Águila roja: about a masked hero, set during the 17th century.
  • La señora: set in the 20s, about a love story between people of two different social classes.
  • Amar en tiempos revueltos: soap opera depicting the life in the Spanish civil war.
  • Gran hotel: drama series set in 1905 about a family who own a hotel.
  • El internado: thriller which focuses on the lives of students living in a boarding room.
  • Médico de familia: a bit old, tells the story of a doctor and his family.
  • Hospital central: drama about the lives of some hospital workers.
  • Verano azul: from 1989, one of the most iconic Spanish TV series. It tells the story of some children and their summer vacation.

If you want to watch any of them and aren’t able to find them (or if you have any doubts), drop me a message and I’ll be glad to help. Happy learning!

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I would also highly recommend a series called El Tiempo Entre Costuras. The story begins in the mid-1930s and follows the life of a young Spanish seamstress, who ends up leaving her country and gets involved in unexpected political twists.  As far as I know, it can also be found on Netflix.

Here you can watch a trailer.

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Russenorsk (eller “Moja på tvoja”) is an extinct dual-source pidgin language formerly used in the Arctic, which combined elements of Russian and Norwegian, and which was created by Russian traders and Norwegian fishermen from northern Norway and the Russian Kola peninsula. It was used extensively in Northern Norway for about 150 years in the Pomor trade. Russenorsk is important as a test case for theories concerning pidgin languages since it was used far away from most of the other documented pidgins of the world.

Russenorsk had a rudimentary grammar and a restricted vocabulary, mostly composed of words essential to Arctic fishing and trade and did not particularly deal with unrelated issues.

Corpora of Russenorsk consist of lists of individual words and phrases as well as records of dialogues compiled by linguists such as Just Knut Qvigstad. The corpora include c. 400 words, of which about half are hapax legomena.

The origin of its vocabulary is generally held to be approximately 40% Russian and 50% Norwegian, with the remaining 10% from Dutch, Low German, French, English, Sami, and Swedish.

Kak sprek? Moje niet forsto. - What are you talking about? I don’t understand.

Eta grot dyr. Værsegod, på minder prodaj! - It is very expensive. Please lower the price!

Kak pris? Mangeli kosta? - What is the price? How much?

Davai paa moia malenka tabaska presentom. - Give me some free cigarettes.

Moja tvoja på vater kasstom. - I will throw you into the water.

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Somewhere near Rosenheim, Bayern (Bavaria), Southern Germany. Restaurants across Germany usually have their menu (with prices) posted outside so passerbys can study it and see if there’s anything they like to eat there or move on to another restaurant.  

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the worst part about being bilingual is being only like… moderately bilingual. like you can make conversation but you can’t like read articles and shit. or if you can understand but not respond. or if you only know enough to look impressive to a monolingual person, but you’re just pathetic to people who are native speakers lolol

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When we took Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure” into a maximum security woman’s prison on the West Side…there’s a scene there where a young woman is told by a very powerful official that “If you sleep with me, I will pardon your brother. And if you don’t sleep with me, I’ll execute him.” And he leaves the stage. And this character, Isabel, turned out to the audience and said: “To whom should I complain?” And a woman in the audience shouted: “The Police!” And then she looked right at that woman and said: “If I did relate this, who would believe me?” And the woman answered back, “No one, girl.” And it was astonishing because not only was it an amazing sense of connection between the audience and the actress, but you also realized that this was a kind of an historical lesson in theater reception. That’s what must have happened at The Globe. These soliloquies were not simply monologues that people spoke, they were call and response to the audience. And you realized that vibrancy, that that sense of connectedness is not only what makes theater great in prisons, it’s what makes theater great, period.

-Oskar Eustis on ArtBeat Nation (he told the same story on Charlie Rose)

Source: azpbs.org
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Everyone IN NY should read this

Everyone who wants to come to NY should read this

Everyone should read this if you’re thinking about NY in any way, shape or form.

Everyone should fucking read this

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